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I like to look at intheboatshed.net’s stats in order to try to workout where its visitors come from and where they go to. Often they come from a Google search that has turned up several interesting pages in addition to intheboatshed.net – and that’s how I found this interesting piece about Ian Proctor and his … Continue reading “Nice Design Council article about Ian Proctor”
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Wayfarer Designer Ian Proctor put it this way: ‘This is what the Wayfarer design is all about, with its robust and beamy hull, its fore-and-aft buoyancy tanks that can be used for dry stowage of cruising gear, its flat, raised, draining cockpit floor, its pivoted mast lowering in a tabernacle, its sidebenches that … Continue reading “Two more Ian Proctor plastic classics: the Wayfarer and Topper”
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Kestrel, the UK’s first all-glass reinforced plastic sailing dinghy Kestrel The 15ft 6in Kestrel was the UK’s first all-GRP sailing dinghy. The first plastic Kestrel appeared at the London Boat Show in 1956 and created a lot of favourable comment in the plastics magazines – but rather less in the yachting press, which … Continue reading “Two dinghy classics from Ian Proctor’s drawing board – the Kestrel and the Osprey”